Sports

SALISBURY — Edgar Giffenig barely has time to sit down for a bit of lunch, he’s that busy giving tennis lessons at the Norfolk Country Club and dealing with pulling together his second book about the sport.

But he did find a half hour to chat recently in the dining room of the club before he walked back down a hill to the tennis courts for a lesson.

Giffenig’s life has been entwined in tennis since his days as a top-rated junior player in his native Mexico. He went on to play for The University of Texas (Austin), where he completed an undergraduate degree...

Lakeville Journal Sports

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By the time you read this I will have returned from a week on the Esopus Creek in New York, after catching record numbers of trout, splitting several cords of firewood by hand and generally being manly.
The summer on the Housatonic River has been excellent. In sharp contradistinction to last summer, it has been raining at regular intervals, and the river has not dipped below 200 cubic feet per second at Falls Village.

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SALISBURY — Particularly gorgeous weather graced the Labor Day Weekend Historic Festival 35 at Lime Rock Park, presented by the Prestige Family of Fine cars.
Except of course for Sunday, a miserably gray, wet day for the Sunday in the Park Concours d’Elegance. A few hardy souls came out nonetheless to display their perfectly buffed vintage autos, or to look under the hoods of the cars arrayed around the track. Also on Sunday was an auction of notable vintage vehicles by Dragone Auction.

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On Aug. 16 there were five full tables for duplicate bridge at St. Bernard’s Church in Sharon. Using the Mitchell Movement with five boards a round and playing five rounds, each pair played 25 boards with no sit-outs and no skips. The average score was 50.

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LIME ROCK — In 2011, when Lime Rock Park President Skip Barber first had staffers organize a parade of vintage sports cars and race cars through Lakeville and Salisbury on the Thursday prior to the long Labor Day weekend, the idea was simply to have a fun, community involved kick-off to the “Historic Festival” weekend, a Northwest Corner fixture for 35 years.
In addition to the festival competitors, local people who owned sports cars — models from the mid-1970s and older — were encouraged to enter the parade at no charge.

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SHARON — By exactly 8 a.m. on Saturday Aug. 12, coffee had long ago been brewed, breakfast eaten and leisurely routines left behind as 62 competitors lined up on the sand at the Sharon town beach on Mudge Pond. After taking a year off due to low sign-ups, the Sharon Sprint Triathlon returned with roaring enthusiasm and perfect weather (another boon to the Sharon Parks and Recreation Commission, whose Arts & Crafts Fair last weekend just narrowly escaped the predicted storms).

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SHARON — On Aug. 9 there were six full tables for duplicate bridge at St. Bernard’s Church on New Street. Playing four boards a round for six rounds, all East West pairs played all North South pairs, with each pair playing 24 boards. The average score was 60.
For North South pairs, in first with 67 points (55.83 percent) were Kay and Fred Joseph; in second with 66.5 points (55.52 percent) were Emily and Billy Saster, and in third with 64 points (53.33 percent ) were Marian and Carr Ferguson.

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In spite of thunderstorm warnings and a torrential downpour on Thursday, Aug. 3, the annual Millbrook Horse Trials at Coole Park Farm were once again exciting and well-attended.
A total of 437 horses, from as far away as Florida, Michigan and Canada, competed in the four-day event. Some owners brought a single horse, others brought as many as nine.
Competition was in categories ranging from dressage to cross-country to stadium jumping.

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FALLS VILLAGE — The Housatonic Girls Summer Basketball League succumbed to the Northwestern Summer League in the second round of the finals tournament, losing 27-24 on Wednesday, Aug. 2, at the Torrington Armory.
The coaches were Bob Segalla and Tom Olownia. The team only lost one game during regular season play, ending with a record of 10-3 (including the tournament games).— Tom Brown

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SHARON — There were six full tables for duplicate bridge on July 19 at St. Bernard’s Church in Sharon. The average score was 60.
For North South pairs, in first with 74.5 points (62.08 percent) were Pat Konecky and Bob Putz; in second with 68 points (56.67 percent) were Stephen Feld and Peter Hollander, and in third with 63.5 points (52.97 percent) were Emily and Billy Saster.

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